刑事案件庭前会议制度初探

新刑诉法设立了庭前会议制度。庭前会议属于刑事庭前；住备程序的重要组成部分，对于提高诉讼效率．实现程序、实体正义具有重要意义。庭前会议具有程序性事项裁断功能．非法证据排除功能，整理证据、明确争议焦点的功能。新刑诉法对于庭前会议的规定过于原则．司法解释应当对庭前会议的适用范围、启动主体和时间、主持人和参加者、庭前会议的内容、庭前会议的结果和效力等问题做进一步明确。

A Discussion on Criminal Pretrial Conference System

The newly revised ＂Criminal Procedure Law＂ establishes a system of pretrial conference. As an important part of pretrial procedure preparation, pretrial conference is of importance to enhancing litigation efficiency and guaranteeing procedural and sub- stantive justice. From its functional perspective, pretrial conference could adjudicate procedural items, exclude illegal evidences, and collate evidences to clarify the focus of dispute. Since the stipulations of the new Criminal Procedure Law is a bit too general, the paper proposes that clarification be made in judicial interpretations concerning pretrial conference＇s scope, the starter, the time, the chair and participants, the contents, the result and the effect, etc.